Hi everyone,
Will Notes Plus do the job, or does anyone have any other suggestions?
Thanks a ton in advance!
You're going to get a ton of suggestions ... everyone thinks their favorite is king app ... (and it is for them) ... but there are a lot of different favorites with people.
I've switched several times over the past few years; each switch was an improvement for me. Here's the order of the apps I've used:
Note Taker HD - first decent app with a magnification window (which is now common )
UPad - switched to this one for a better GUI interface.
Notes Plus - switched to this one because everything was vectorized - but there are a LOT OF
BELLS AND WHISTLES with this app. These features look cool, but some of them are
not necessary for regular notetaking ... they hardly ever get used. Very nice app
though! Seriously.
Noteshelf - I currently use this app (although it's not too popular). Here's the reasons I like it:
VAST PAPER SELECTION BY FAR! Including customized papers
FANTASTIC, super simple GUI!
Export options to the max Email/Dropbox/Evernote/CameraRoll LowRes/HD PDF/Image
Viewing Thumbnails of Pages is great! (this one allows the whole screen to be dedicated towards browing pages of a book, with others you can not view as many thumbnails simultaneously as you can with Noteshelf ).
Same as above for viewing/creating/organizing all your notebooks. I have 20 some odd notebooks ... jumping from one to another is visually simple, short and organized. I can see all of them simultaneously on one screen!
If you need to be organized with lots of books, and you plan to have lots of pages in a book, and you want to be able to find a page quickly, Noteshelf may be right for you!
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That said, there are things it can not do:
- transcribe handwriting - like Notes Plus can do.
- images can not be re-placed, and resized after positioning - like Notes Plus can do. ( wish they would do this)
- import PDFs (although, it can export to PDF, but this is in their to do list )
- sound recording
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But it does have some other niceties about it that I use from time to time:
- calligraphy pens
- colored pencils ( excellent emulation for colored pencils - works really well )
- import photos into your pages
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I've posted some examples at places in this thread. Good Luck with whatever you decide.
Notes Plus is nice for engineering diagrams ( straight lines drawing charts would be nice )
Noteability (think that's the one) has very nice audio recording features, which seems to be indexed by what was written on a page at the time of what was currently recorded. Very Kewl feature! I.e. If you can't read what you were writing, but you were recording, just pull up your audio recording and tap the area of the page you were writing at the time, and the audio will jump to that location. I have not used this app personally - but for college or classroom - sounds very useful!!
I would think those are some of the apps you might start to check out! Let me know what you decide!
good luck
